Arayos, in the province of Goyaz, Brazil, and seeds were 

 sent home from thence by Mr. Gardner, its discoverer. 

 The plants flowered first at the Royal Botanic Garden of 

 Glasgow, and then at Kew, where our figure was made. 

 The autumn has been its season of blossoming with us, 

 and it continues long in that state, a succession of flowers 

 continually expanding. The fringe on the limb of the 

 corolla is extremely variable. In the figure taken from the 

 dried specimen in " lcones Plantarum" above quoted, the 

 lower lobe is alone fringed, and that imperfectly. In our 

 plant, all the lobes are deeply so. The whole habit of the 

 species is so extremely like that of Gloxinia icthyostoma 

 (Gardn. in Ic. Plant, t. 472), that it seems contrary to 

 nature to place it in a different Genus; but Mr. Gardner 

 observes that, the bifid stigma, and entire annulus of this 

 plant, prove it to belong to Achimenes. 



Descr. An annual, according to Mr. Gardner ; every- 

 where hairy, except the corolla. Stem simple, about a foot 

 high. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, rather 

 coarsely serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bracteated, 

 three-flowered. Calyx half-superior, five-cleft, the seg- 

 ments broadly linear. Corolla nearly two inches long, deep 

 lilac within, paler without, especially the lube : this latter is 

 funnel-shaped, curved downwards, slightly gibbous at the 

 base ; the limb oblique, of five nearly equal, rounded lobes, 

 strongly fimbriated at the margin. Stamens four, didyna- 

 mous, with the rudiment of a fifth : anthers cordate, united 

 into a cross. Germen ovate, the free part hairy, surround- 

 ed by an entire annular disk. Style about equal in length 

 with the tube. Stigma clavate, bifid. 



Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamens -.-—magnified. 



